If you knew where it was you wouldn’t need a search engine

Posted byYan Sham-ShackletonPosted inZhong Guo, Middle Kingdom

I read this on the "have your say" section of the BBC website…in fact it was picked as one of the highlight insets

"Anyone with an ounce of intelligence can access a blocked site when they know its location" (italics mine) Hants Hawk, Hants, United Kingdom

That’s about the most stupid thing I have heard in a debate so far (where i have heard an incredible amount of unbelievable stupidity). Why?

Because if you "knew the location" you wouldn’t need to use a search engine in the first place.

People use them because they don’t.

(it sounds like one of the silly jokes you get inside a Christmas Cracker doesn’t it?)

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

2 thoughts on “If you knew where it was you wouldn’t need a search engine”

  1. I would advise you to stay away from “have your say” – unless you want o have a good laugh at the idea of ‘having your say’ on a website which routinely deletes comments it deems ‘unsuitable’ (such as criticism of BBC web censorship).

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